Bob Reed, who voiced his displeasure about taxpayers having to support children from women who keep going in and out of prison while continuing to have more children, reminded me of something (“Support your own kids,” Your Views, July 15).

When I was working for the family services department in Oregon years ago, a particular woman who had five children taken from her because she was unfit and a drug addict told me she didn’t care — she could always have another baby.